Connect Your Facebook Page to Channel

Once you got your Stella account, hold on and do no go ahead to build your chatbot. First and foremost, you should connect your account to one of the messaging platform to make sure the bot would work (and you could also test it if it doesn't). You could do the connection in Channels.

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What is your Result?

Get started button
Persistent menu
In-app webview
PropertyDescription
Successful Result
You should be able to see a Get Started button and also a Persistent Menu on your testing Facebook page. The menu button should be able to open an in-app webview.

Getting Hands-on

Connect to a Testing Page

  1. Go to Facebook and create a new Facebook page for testing purpose.

  2. Now go back to Stella and click "Channels" on the top menu bar.

  3. Click "+ New Channel".

Click + New Channel
  1. You will enter into the channel creation workspace. Now, fill in the name and description of your new channel. Click "Save".

Give your channel a name and a description

  1. Go to "Platform" on the left menu, click on the "Facebook icon".

  2. A new section called "Facebook Page Integration" will expand.

Select Facebook as platform
  1. Click "Connect" and a new window will pop up. Log into your Facebook account and grant access to Stella.
Log into your Facebook
Continue as your Facebook account
  1. Grant access to connect to your Facebook pages to Stella. Click "Done".
Grant access to Stella
Complete authorization
  1. Select your testing Facebook page in the drop down menu and click "Subscribe".

Select Facebook Page

Successful connection to your Facebook Page

Set Get Started Button

  1. After you have successfully subscribed to your testing Facebook page, scroll down to the "Persistent Menu Setting" and set the Get Started button of your chatbot.

  2. The default payload is "GET_STARTED". We will keep it the same now, you can change it later.

Set your Get Started button

Set Persistent Menu

  1. Click "+ Button" to create a persistent menu button.

Add persistent menu button
  1. The button details will be displayed on the right hand side. Fill in the title, select the URL button type, and put down the URL of your official website. Click "Save".

Set URL button

  1. Now, go back to the top right and click the final "Save".

  2. Go to your Testing Facebook Page and check if you can get a successful result 🎉

For more details, please see Persistent Menu.

Connect to Different Platforms

For the detailed steps of connecting to all the messaging platforms, you may refer to the corresponding section:

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